Environmental exposure based diagnosis
You have three cases below Answer the the questions for each case. Look up and cite the evidence to support the diagnosis is related to an environmental exposure. What is the chemical source of the environmental exposure that is related to this disease ? As a community health nurse, what are your next steps?
1. You are working in a VA clinic. A veteran ( Marine) is your patient, diagnosed with cancer of the kidney . He attended Camp Lejeune in 1980 for training , and he asks you if his diagnosis could be related to exposure at that site. 1 Citation: 2 Source : 3. Next Steps:
2. You are working in a public health clinic. A recently diagnosed diabetic woman comes to the clinic and tells you she has been fishing, and has been eating carp from the Kent river . She asks you if this diagnosis could be related to a chemical exposure.
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